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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Dieter » Tue May 07, 2019 9:44 pm

pmward wrote:
Mon May 06, 2019 5:50 pm
ochotona wrote:
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More???

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I think we all can agree the market is overdue for at the very least a small pull-back. But, I wouldn't be surprised if it was taken as "Meh" again tomorrow just like it was today.
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Not a huge one day drop Tue, 5/7, but not exactly 'Meh' either.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring, but tis interesting times.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by pmward » Tue May 07, 2019 9:52 pm

Dieter wrote:
Tue May 07, 2019 9:44 pm
pmward wrote:
Mon May 06, 2019 5:50 pm
ochotona wrote:
Mon May 06, 2019 5:41 pm
More???

Markets Re-Plunge As Lighthizer Confirms Tariff-Hikes After China Reneges On Promises
I think we all can agree the market is overdue for at the very least a small pull-back. But, I wouldn't be surprised if it was taken as "Meh" again tomorrow just like it was today.
<snip>
Not a huge one day drop Tue, 5/7, but not exactly 'Meh' either.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring, but tis interesting times.
Yep, today definitely didn't follow suite. But the S&P still closed just above support at 2880. So no real technical damage has been done yet. But if we lose that 2880 that would definitely signal that we are at the very least in a pull-back. Of course, after the run since late December, I think a pull-back is healthy and constructive long term. I think putting in a higher low through a successful retest of 2880, or even the next support line at 2800 would be good confirmation that the new up trend is legit. If we get a weekly close below 2800 I might start to get a little worried. But we will see.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Mon May 13, 2019 9:44 am

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Another fine mess the trade kerfuffle has gotten us into...
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Cortopassi » Mon May 13, 2019 11:13 am

The best part of the PP, IMO, is a day like today.

When the financial media and talking heads are gnashing their teeth about the drop in the market, my PP is up a couple tenths and I can say meh.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Mon May 13, 2019 6:56 pm

Cortopassi wrote:
Mon May 13, 2019 11:13 am
The best part of the PP, IMO, is a day like today.

When the financial media and talking heads are gnashing their teeth about the drop in the market, my PP is up a couple tenths and I can say meh.
My Hideout Portfolio is down 0.28% today.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Ugly_Bird » Mon May 13, 2019 7:09 pm

ochotona wrote:
Mon May 13, 2019 6:56 pm
Cortopassi wrote:
Mon May 13, 2019 11:13 am
The best part of the PP, IMO, is a day like today.

When the financial media and talking heads are gnashing their teeth about the drop in the market, my PP is up a couple tenths and I can say meh.
My Hideout Portfolio is down 0.28% today.
-0.21% for my 4x25 HBPP today
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Mon May 13, 2019 8:59 pm

MangoMan wrote:
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ochotona wrote:
Mon May 13, 2019 6:56 pm
Cortopassi wrote:
Mon May 13, 2019 11:13 am
The best part of the PP, IMO, is a day like today.

When the financial media and talking heads are gnashing their teeth about the drop in the market, my PP is up a couple tenths and I can say meh.
My Hideout Portfolio is down 0.28% today.
what is a hideout portfolio?
25 equity, 10 gold, 12 cash, 53 intermediate Treasuries. I'm a long bond and gold chicken.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Kriegsspiel » Tue May 14, 2019 7:54 am

Sounds like the newest 007 adventure.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Tue May 14, 2019 10:46 am

ochotona wrote:
Mon May 13, 2019 8:59 pm
I'm a long bond and gold chicken.
For a split second I read that as you being long chicken, makes me very hungry this morning.

It seems like you buy gold all the time, though, Ocho. I was cleaning up an old phone -- just bought a new one after five years. Pixel 3a, whoo O0 -- and I saw some offline notes like "Adopt Ocho's idea of a coin a month?"

After I wrote that note, it seemed like you were buying a lot of gold here and there.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Tue May 14, 2019 12:55 pm

dualstow wrote:
Tue May 14, 2019 10:46 am
ochotona wrote:
Mon May 13, 2019 8:59 pm
I'm a long bond and gold chicken.
For a split second I read that as you being long chicken, makes me very hungry this morning.

It seems like you buy gold all the time, though, Ocho. I was cleaning up an old phone -- just bought a new one after five years. Pixel 3a, whoo O0 -- and I saw some offline notes like "Adopt Ocho's idea of a coin a month?"

After I wrote that note, it seemed like you were buying a lot of gold here and there.

I was buying, then I hit my target and stopped. No more for now.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Tue May 14, 2019 2:32 pm

Well, that's not chicken.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Kriegsspiel » Tue May 14, 2019 3:31 pm

Just bought chicken at the store. About 20% of my household food allocation.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by jhogue » Tue May 14, 2019 4:02 pm

Is this the new buddtholomew diet I have been hearing about?
“Groucho Marx wrote:
A stock trader asked him, "Groucho, where do you put all your money?" Groucho was said to have replied, "In Treasury bonds", and the trader said, "You can't make much money on those." Groucho said, "You can if you have enough of them!"
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Kriegsspiel » Tue May 14, 2019 4:15 pm

budd is a fellow weightroom aficionado, so I am sure we've both eaten more than our fair share of chickens.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Cortopassi » Thu May 16, 2019 12:31 pm

Nothing short of all out nuclear war will shake this market for more than a few days/weeks. Amazing. Wonder what can cause an actual sustained downtrend.

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Re: Stock scream room

Post by pmward » Thu May 16, 2019 12:55 pm

Just as it always has, momentum works until it doesn't. Generally down trends don't start off of rumors. Matter of fact, news has much less effect on the markets than people realize. If you go back in time and look at the dates that big important news has been released and look at what happened in the markets you would be surprised at how little it actually made a difference. Even 911, which should have been murder on the stock market, was taken just as "meh" in the grand scheme. The downtrend for the bear market was already in place before 911, and 911 did not speed or slow it down, the market just continued on the trajectory and trend it already was on just as it would have done if 911 didn't happen.

The moment you start to realize that things like fundamentals, news, etc don't really matter on any timeframe measured in less than years, the more you'll be free from wondering why the market is not behaving why you expect on a given day, week, month, quarter, or even year. Technicals (measurement of current sentiment, fear, greed, momentum, trend, etc) are THE ONLY thing that matters in the short to medium term. There’s a popular saying amongst traders “the trend is your friend until the bend at the end.” What that means it is best not to bet short term against the current trend until there is technical proof that it’s over, regardless of how much conviction you have or how much it fundamentally might make sense to do so. As long as we are over the major support line at 2800, there really is not enough technical damage to even begin to consider a change in trend.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by boglerdude » Thu May 16, 2019 10:43 pm

I cant find that post by Nisi, where he posts a stock chart, everyone reads into it, then he reveals it was randomly generated.

That said, money does slosh between assets classes, and it all cant move overnight.

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https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewto ... 0&t=245475

Ill watch tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy43vfYaxk0 Paul Tudor Jones - Trader Documentary 1987
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Kriegsspiel » Fri May 17, 2019 9:23 am

boglerdude wrote:
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Ill watch tonight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy43vfYaxk0 Paul Tudor Jones - Trader Documentary 1987
Really cool! I have always thought being a Wall Street trader would have been a cool way to go in another life.
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Post by dualstow » Fri May 17, 2019 10:31 am

Yeah, thanks for that, Boglerdude. Pasted it into my Telegram and can't wait to watch.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Kriegsspiel » Fri May 17, 2019 10:38 am

According to wikipedia, Paul Tudor Jones was attempting to buy up all the copies of that doc back in the day to prevent people from watching it. He didn't say why, but speculation is that it revealed too much of his methods.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Fri May 17, 2019 1:52 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
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According to wikipedia, Paul Tudor Jones was attempting to buy up all the copies of that doc back in the day to prevent people from watching it. He didn't say why, but speculation is that it revealed too much of his methods.
Sounds like a ‘Monk’ episode...except, you know, he would’ve been covering up a murder.
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Post by mathjak107 » Fri May 17, 2019 3:36 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Fri May 17, 2019 10:38 am
According to wikipedia, Paul Tudor Jones was attempting to buy up all the copies of that doc back in the day to prevent people from watching it. He didn't say why, but speculation is that it revealed too much of his methods.
my daughter inlaw worked for paul for many years up until last year as a matter of fact
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Kriegsspiel » Fri May 17, 2019 9:43 pm

Oh yea? Small world. He seemed like a good dude in that doc.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Fri May 24, 2019 12:14 pm

Sell in May Go Away reference:

https://stocktradersalmanac.com/Strategy.aspx

Seems well-paired to an HBPP philosophy. Rules-based, simple, infrequent actions, low cost. The ETF would be DIA, seems to work better with Dow than S&P 500. Backtested to 1950... I can't verify with PV.com

I just tested Sell in May on DIA and put it into the HBPP... for 2005-2019 data (admittedly a short period of time... GLD) you can run 61% Sell in May DIA and 13% all other assets, and get the same MaxDD but 94 extra basis points, which is pretty nice.

IT BEATS THE GOLDEN BUTTERFLY!

It's the kind of thing I could tell my daughter to implement for my wife and I when we've got drool coming out of our mouths.

Below is DIA vs DIA six best months... no other assets involved.

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Re: Stock scream room

Post by D1984 » Sat May 25, 2019 2:00 am

ochotona wrote:
Fri May 24, 2019 12:14 pm
Sell in May Go Away reference:

https://stocktradersalmanac.com/Strategy.aspx

Seems well-paired to an HBPP philosophy. Rules-based, simple, infrequent actions, low cost. The ETF would be DIA, seems to work better with Dow than S&P 500. Backtested to 1950... I can't verify with PV.com

I just tested Sell in May on DIA and put it into the HBPP... for 2005-2019 data (admittedly a short period of time... GLD) you can run 61% Sell in May DIA and 13% all other assets, and get the same MaxDD but 94 extra basis points, which is pretty nice.

IT BEATS THE GOLDEN BUTTERFLY!

It's the kind of thing I could tell my daughter to implement for my wife and I when we've got drool coming out of our mouths.

Below is DIA vs DIA six best months... no other assets involved.

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Is there any reason to trust that "sell in May" will always continue to work, though? It worked great post 1950....but sucked before then; see:


https://www.cxoadvisory.com/calendar-ef ... -long-run/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/ ... away-myth/

http://www.equityclock.com/2017/05/11/s ... y-12-2017/

So what exactly changed around 1949-50 to make it work? Will whatever it is continue into the future?
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